Live Blogging the Bing Search Summit

Danny and I are here at the Bing Search Summit in San Francisco. For a comprehensive overview of the new Bing features, see Danny’s article on the “new Bing .” Microsoft’s Qi Lu has just taken stage talking about the launch of the new Bing. He’s talking about “reorganizing the web for task completion.” The web is no longer a collection of documents; it’s a web of documents, places and people. “It’s dramatically richer today,” he says. Lu is now talking about the importance of the social graph and the need to incorporate and integrate social content and interaction into search if it is to remain as central to the online experience and “the gateway to the web.” Social now a critical part of the web Relationships and conversations among people are now a critical part of the web. Search needs to be “re-invented” to account for the new web of entities/places and social sharing....